Agreed, More importantly the two distribution have different kurtosis, so their tails are very different a few sigmas away
I do think the Laplace distribution is a better beginner distribution because of its fat tails, but advocating for people to use a distribution they have never heard of seems like a to tough sell :)
Agreed, More importantly the two distribution have different kurtosis, so their tails are very different a few sigmas away
I do think the Laplace distribution is a better beginner distribution because of its fat tails, but advocating for people to use a distribution they have never heard of seems like a to tough sell :)